Ruby Programming Language,9780596002145

Ruby Programming Language

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780596002145
ISBN10: 0596002149
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

Written by Yukihiro Matsumoto (""Matz""), creator of the language, Ruby in a Nutshell is a practical reference guide covering everything from Ruby syntax to the specifications of its standard class libraries. The book is based on Ruby 1.6, and is applicable to development versions 1.7 and the next planned stable version 1.8. As part of the successful ""in a Nutshell"" series of books from O'reilly & Associates, Ruby in a Nutshell is for readers who want a single desktop reference for all their needs.

Author Biography

Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), the creator of Ruby, is a professional programmer who worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matz is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He's released several open source products, including cmail, the emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in emacs lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that has become known outside of Japan.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(4)
Ruby's Elegance
1(2)
Ruby in Action
3(2)
Language Basics
5(31)
Command-Line Options
5(2)
Environment Variables
7(1)
Lexical Conventions
8(1)
Literals
9(6)
Variables
15(2)
Operators
17(3)
Methods
20(5)
Control Structures
25(4)
Object-Oriented Programming
29(4)
Security
33(3)
Built-in Library Reference
36(74)
Predefined Variables
36(2)
Predefined Global Constants
38(1)
Built-in Functions
39(8)
Built-in Library
47(63)
Standard Library Reference
110(56)
Standard Library
110(56)
Ruby Tools
166(10)
Standard Tools
166(7)
Additional Tools
173(1)
Ruby Application Archive
174(2)
Ruby Updates
176(5)
Summary of Changes
176(2)
The Future of Ruby
178(1)
Participate in Ruby
179(2)
Index 181

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